50 tunes in my session tune book 
clickey for the terminally intrested
plus about another 10 or so which i have picked up at sessions but don’t have a name for
plus another 5 if you count video game theme music 
I have another 8 in my ‘to learn cus there ace’ list but i may stop for a while there and catch up my performance technique; not that its bad; its just im not aiming to be a great player, just a player good enough to sit down at a session and tootle along.
Good show, Chris. Now you can look forward to the day when you have 1000+ tunes, and you can’t remember the names of any of them. 
…or you have so many tunes that you start “stream-of-consciousness” playing where you switch tunes unintended, make Frankentunes, go back, then somewhere else, make up some shyghte, and eventually wind up back where you were but never intended to be in the first place. Then it will be time for you to go, Grasshopper. What counts is if you keep a steady beat. 
it would probably help if i didnt keep taking up new instruments.
the violin i bought my friend to start on ITM gets a lot more business from me at the moment and the very minute i win two or more lotteries im going to be buying some pipes and a bod-ran
Ain’t that the truth!
My usual scenario:
I decide I want to practice an instrument, so I walk into the room where they live and must choose between whistle, fiddle, harmonica, guitar, flute and mandolin. I can’t make up my mind, so I turn around and go do something else.
And now I want a wire-strung harp.
GAH! Why can’t I simply choose one instrument and really learn to play it? It’s an illness, I say. Is there already a term for this condition? Something like MIAD (multiple instrument acquisition disorder), perhaps?
You are seriously due for an intervention.
I’m very, very close to just up and selling every instrument I own except the whistle, and flute. And maybe the mandolin. And guitar…and fiddle…and harmonica…
My unique solution to this problem is to insure that i cant actually get to my computer keybored without having to clear away at least 3 fedogs and part of a flute.
Two things you must consider: 1) how people, and especially your wife, will take to you walking around with long fingernails, and 2) whether you are willing to take your life into your own hands every time you have to wipe yourself.
But really, it’s not like you have to grow 'em a half inch long and sharpen 'em. Just enough to hook the string is all you need. Fingerstyle guitar players seem to get by okay, though admittedly they only need 'em long on one hand.
I personally know a prizewinning master grade wire harper, and his nails are long enough - and pointy - to be quite noticeable and make him look like a card-carrying eccentric (Oh, who am I kidding? He plays wire harp. That should do it right there. ), and knowing him and all the years and experience under his belt at it, there’s gonna be a good and necessary technical reason for it. Probably has to do with right ergonomics. Harp, wire-strung or no, is an instrument you can easily injure yourself on if you go about it the wrong way. Trust me, if he didn’t have to grow 'em that way, he wouldn’t. It’s the price you pay for dedication.
I never did ask him about the more hair-raising aspects of personal hygeine he has to work around.
Well, this gentle listener had started to wonder…
is yer spelling of hygiene Freudian dear?
does this topic really make you nervous?
have you “talked” to Dale about it?
Okay, all right, I bollixed up the spelling. A black letter day for me, and a red letter day for you.
As for the rest, just put a sock in it already. Doesn’t your stable have enough for you to shovel? 
:sniff:
ya know it’s just that my browser underlined it when I quoted ya
fall, innit…
raining to hard to work the horses tonight,
waiting 'till it is time to go out and feed the little darlings
Yeah, fall and the boiler not yet on. The cat won’t leave my lap willingly.
same problem…'cept there’s two of 'em and it is a bad area for a fight 
Thanks for the reminder, if I don’t remember to order propane…
seventy five tunes now… seventy six if i can find the proper name for Finigans triangle jig.
i also bought some pipes… well a pipe (practice set)… and a bod-ran which my flatmate has adopted. Oh also, there are two saxaphones in my room, but in my defence: there not mine, im just looking after them, and my flatmates are evil and deserve to be punished in my ‘how meny different kinds of duck noises can i make’ experiments.
i now need to start saving for my half-set and the electronic music studio thing needs re-built 
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… would anyone like to sponcer a failing and bitter musician?
Have you considered forgetting all this … and learning some tunes? 'Cos, if you want to be able to hold your own in sessions, coming from the number of tunes you have now, I reckon you need to learn 10 tunes every week, minimum, for the next two years.
[Or 2 tunes a week minimum for the next 10 years.]
spot on
Milestone or Millstone? Sounds like your multiple instruments are weighting you down, good sir 